Google makes the Chrome browser and Google makes Gmail. Naturally, the Chrome Web Store has some excellent extensions to improve your Gmail experience. But it also has several that you don’t need. Let’s sift the gems from the mud.

A lot of people keep their Gmail inbox open and pinned as a tab at all times. But if that’s not you, then Checker Plus for Gmail is the perfect extension to know when you get a new message.

It’s not just a notifier though. Checker Plus also lets you interact with the email, and even mark it as read or delete it. There’s even a small pop-down pane that lets you interact with the inbox without opening a new tab for it.

Whenever you send a mail, you’ll get one green tick to indicate it has reached the inbox of the recipient. Then you’ll get a second green tick to indicate that the person read it. Mailtrack can even tell you if someone read your email more times than one. Stalkers are going to love this.

Gmail lets you add signatures to each email, but they look kind of drab, don’t they? Blade is the easy way to design a classy signature without any coding or other hijinks.

Install the extension, add your details (like photo, website, social profiles, personal info), and create a signature. You can now attach this signature in any email you send within a few seconds. It’s actually easier than WiseStamp, and it doesn’t add any “made by Blade” appendage to the signature.

Email is often serious business and how you compose it will matter. DraftMap improves your English skills to ensure your message is well worded.

The extension uses different colors to highlight repetitive words, passive voice, adverbs, and cliches. It will even advise you on the email’s readability and style. A must-have if anyone has complained your emails aren’t professional.

You can’t always write everything you want to in an email. And sometimes, when you receive a message, you need to add notes to it. Simple Gmail Notes makes this easier.

You can customize the color, font size, position, and other aspects of the note. The extension even lets you add notes to the calendar. Best of all, the notes are stored on your Google Drive, so your data isn’t going to a third party.

When you copy-paste stuff from a website into Gmail, it retains that website’s formatting. So your first line, where you addressed the person, appears like it normally does in Gmail. And the rest of the stuff is a mix of large and small fonts and different colors. It’s a mess, and it’s unprofessional.

If that ever happens again, install and run Email Text Formatter. It will turn all text into the default Gmail font, size, and color. And it will retain links too. This is one of those nifty tools everyone needs to write better emails.

Easy Eye Scan [No Longer Available]: Hide Body Text in Inbox

A ton of Gmail users complain about how cluttered the inbox looks. A big reason for this is that the inbox shows the first bit of any email’s body text, instead of just the subject.

Easy Eye Scan is the simple fix for this. All it does is remove the body text from your inbox view. It might seem like a small thing, but try it out and you’ll find that it’s an incredible improvement for your Gmail.

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This list was all about the 11 best extensions for Gmail on Chrome. But let’s face it, there are a lot more contenders, aren’t there? Tell us your favorite Gmail extensions for Chrome that aren’t on this list.

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D Locker

January 23, 2019 at 4:21 pm

Another cool Chrome extension for dealing with emails is Mailbutler. It packs a variety of great features such as schedule, track or snooze emails, follow-up reminders, email signatures and much more. A really good alternative to Gmelius and Boomerang.

Thorough List, thnx! I prefer all-in-one solutions that's why I have been using Gmelius. It does almost everything from scheduling and tracking to adding reminders, unsubscribing for useless newsletter lists - in which you did sign up at some point. It has a kanban (like Trello) to-do feature, quite handy I would say. All in all, it is the best solution I have come across so far and highly affordable if you opt for a premium plan.

As for Real-Time Writing Suggestions, I'm using Grammarly. It's a bit pricey but worth it.

All these extensions are nothing more than trying to make a purse out of a sow's ear. GMail is a half-developed product. Google is more interested in adding glitz than functionality.

20 years ago, when I was using AT&TMail and Outlook, I was able to sort the contents of my folders on any column (sender, subject, etc.). GMail does not even provide column headings, let alone a sort capability. 20 years ago, when I was using AT&TMail and Outlook, when I designated an email as 'spam', I never saw it again. In GMail, no matter how many times I say 'Delete Forever', I keep getting spam from the same source. Google does not block-user designated spam from getting to the user's mailbox. It only sticks in the 'Spam' folder which then has to be emptied manually.

In the same vein, I have set up filters to intercept any message I consider spam before they get into my 'Inbox'. Unfortunately, 'send to spam' is not one of the options available. All I can do is send those messages to the 'Delete' folder from which I then have to remove them manually.

For at least the last 10 years I've been sending Google suggestions about sorting by column and deleting spam forever automatically. I have had a uniform lack of success. Not even a form response of 'thanks for the suggestion' or 'don't bother us'. But in those 10 years Google has added quite a bit of non-functional eye candy.

You are 100% right. The Gmail do the basics, only the basics. As programmer I have a feeling that each email box is a big container of binary mess. It seems that Google has not enought computational capability to organize the mess on server side and give us a better user experience. My suggestion is using an email client installed in your pc to do the hardwork of organize and give you all the tools that gmail should have.

You want to get rid of the "subject"?
You want to get rid of it asking for the "subject"?
You want to get rid of the app that is asking for the "subject"?
Not sure what you want rid of...
Besides, you should really use subjects for the people getting your emails. It's not about you, it's about them. ;-)

There are so many reasons to use subjects that I find it incredible that you dont use sujects. Imagine trying to choose from a menu in a restaurant which just said FOOD. How annoying it would be to get an email from you. Basic email etiquette is to use a subject. It is like please and thank you.

You rarely use subjects when mailing? That must be a pain in the neck for anyone getting an email from you so, because they can't decide what to do with the email until they've actually opened it first. At least if you give a subject line on an email, people can then decide how important it is, and decide what to do with it.

It's like a book without a title, nobody would watch it, because they wouldn't know what it was called.